Who would pay $1.15m for a 57,500-carat emerald from a guy in an Ed Hardy shirt who admits dying the stone green, and who was arrested last week on unrelated fraud charges? No-one. [Vancouver Sun via Brendan Koerner]
"Worlds Largest Emerald" fails to attract bid at auction
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